Description of problem: Scanner detection (USB, UMAX Astra 3400) works for root only. Probably just permissions problem, but its not obvious what should one do. Adding users to a group (which?)... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): sane-backends-1.0.13-7 xsane-gimp-0.92-10 sane-frontends-1.0.11-4 xsane-0.92-10 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run xsane as non-root user 2. Pop-up window: no device availabe 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
The problem is apparently in the hotplug tool. Namely, one can "chmod a+rw /proc/bus/usb/003/002" after finding the file name with sane-find-scanner, and xsane works for non-root as well. However, this must be done after each reboot, see http://www.sane-project.org/README.linux
We ship a hotplug script for SANE: you can power off and on the device (or unplug/re-insert the USB connector) to achieve what you want. This needs to be solved properly, and I'm told that udev will eventually do that.
I think, this is solved better by HAL, as scanners do not identify themselves easily as "scanner"s. Udev needs strict "rules" (identifier) to e.g. symlink a device node to /dev/scanner.
also pam_console is good for that...
No, it isn't -- that's what we use right now.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 121511 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.